50015 'Valiant' leads the 13.30 Paddington to Penzance past Woodborough's

down home signal. I know that it is taken the wrong side for the sun but I particularly like the long shadows created on the 50's nose by the jumper cable equipment. I also like the S & T telegraph wire and post standing against the clear sky, a feature of the railways that has disappeared now. Notice the line of Dutch elm trees silhouetted against the sky, they look to be in their winter phase but they would never bear leaves again as they were, by 1979, dead from the work of the elm bark beetles spreading the fatal sac fungi.